arag · weave; weaver

What it means

arag (אָרַג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “weave; weaver”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make cloth by crossing threads; the one who does it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• weaver ×5
• weavers ×5
• they weave ×1
• wove ×1
• you weave ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Isaiah×3

• Exodus 28:32

  There shall be an opening for its head in its middle, with a binding around its opening, the work of a weaver; like the opening of a coat of mail it shall be for it, so that it will not tear.

• Exodus 35:35

  He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all the work of the engraver, and of the designer, and of the embroiderer in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, doers of every work and devisers of designs.

• Exodus 39:22

  And he made the robe of the ephod, the work of a weaver, all of blue.

• Exodus 39:27

  And they made the tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons;

• Judges 16:13

  And Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me with what you could be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the warp…”

• 1 Samuel 17:7

  The shaft of his spear was like a beam of weavers, and the point of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and the one who carried the shield was going before him.

• 2 Samuel 21:19

  There was again war at Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck Goliath the Gittite; and the shaft of his spear was like a beam of weavers.

• 2 Kings 23:7

  He tore down the houses of the sacred male prostitutes that were in the house of YHWH, where the women wove houses for the Asherah.

• 1 Chronicles 11:23

  And he struck the Egyptian man, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. In the hand of the Egyptian was a spear like a beam of weavers, and he went down to him with a staff, snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian, and killed him with his own spear.

• 1 Chronicles 20:5

  There was war again with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair struck Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite; and the shaft of his spear was like a beam of weavers.

• Isaiah 19:9

  And those who work combed flax will be ashamed, and the weavers of white cloth.

• Isaiah 38:12

  My dwelling has been pulled up and removed from me like a tent of a shepherd; I have rolled up like the weaver my life; from the threads of the loom he will cut me off; from day to night you will make an end of me.

• Isaiah 59:5

  They hatch cobra eggs, and they weave spider webs; whoever eats of their eggs dies, and the crushed egg breaks open into a viper.